Returning Student Housing Selection

What is Housing Selection?

Housing Selection is the process by which students declare their intention to live on campus, set their meal plan, and find their roommates and room for the following Fall semester.

There are multiple ways in which students can get their room assignment, all of which are detailed on this page. Please be sure to check your Pitzer email and this website for updated information!

Housing Selection for returning students has 3 main steps:

Apply
Group and Explore
Selection

Residence Life reserves the right to pause and update the Housing Selection Process at any time to review room availability and/or procedures.

MCR Housing Portal

FAQ's

Qualifications

All students seeking to live off-campus are required to submit an application to live off-campus for approval. This is regardless of class standing or previous housing arrangements (i.e. on or off-campus or abroad the previous semester). Only those students that receive written approval from the Residence Life will be permitted to live off-campus.

Students are granted off-campus status following the priority criteria below:

Priority Qualifications
- Students living locally with family (Documentation required)
- Married students (Documentation required)
- Students with children (Documentation required)
- Students with verifiable medical documentation that warrants off-campus housing (Documentation required)
- Students 24 years old or older
- Rising Senior students
And (as space remains)…
- Rising Junior students
- Rising Sophomore students

If an off campus application is approved, the student will be notified of their application status via Pitzer Housing email prior to Housing Selection and forfeits the opportunity to participate in the Housing Selection process.

All students who fail to submit an off-campus application by the deadline, are denied off campus approval, and/or do not attend room draw will be automatically placed in campus housing and will be responsible for all room and board fees.

Students opting to live off-campus are responsible for the terms of their lease agreements and related expenses. For example, if a student determines they will break their off-campus lease, then the student is responsible for related financial costs and any related terms of lease agreements. Additionally, students currently receiving financial aid are encouraged to contact the Office of Financial Aid with questions as they plan for the upcoming year. More information below.

Financial Aid Packaging

Students on financial aid are encouraged to review the updated Cost of Attendance (COA) calculation regarding how students’ financial aid packages change depending on their selection of campus housing, off-campus housing, or living at home/with relatives.

Who is eligible for a single room?

Resident Assistants, approved Housing Accommodations, Rising Seniors are eligible for single rooms in WES, PAS, CCA and Mead halls.
Rising Sophomores are not eligible for main campus single rooms regardless of credits recorded in the Registrar’s Office. Sophomores are eligible for single rooms at CCA.
Please note single and double rooms are all charged the universal room rate.

How can I secure a single room?

Single rooms are available in a variety of ways including:

Housing Selection process with a Roommate Group.
Assigned by Rezlife due to approved Housing Accommodations.
Assigned by RezLife to Resident Assistants to fulfill their position requirements.

How many single rooms are there?

Only 23% of main campus residence halls rooms are singles.
CCA is all single rooms and a few studio apartments.

What if we don’t have enough people to fill a full suite?

In the case your Roommate Group loses 50% of its participants after a suite is secured, the open spaces in your suite will be filled by Residence Life.

What if someone in our suite does not return to Pitzer in the fall or spring after we secure housing with a Roommate Group?

In the case one of your applicants pulls out of your Roommate Group because they will not be on campus (i.e. taking a leave or late abroad decision), your Leader may be able to meet with the Residence Life Office to explore the different options available for the space.

If the Residence Life Office is given official notice from the College that someone will no longer be attending Pitzer BEFORE the specific dates below, the suite may have the opportunity to replace the person vacating the space.

Fall occupancy – July 1st
Spring Occupancy – November 1st

In the case the Residence Life Office is notified AFTER the dates above, someone will be placed in the space that will be vacated for the next semester.

Fall 2024 Only Leave/Abroad

Spring 2025 Return – Off Campus Housing
- No current application required – Residence Life and International Programs offices will be in coordination regarding your Fall Study Abroad Plans.
- Pitzer will follow up in Fall regarding a Off Campus Application for Spring.
Spring 2025 Return – Campus Housing
- No current application required – Residence Life and International Programs offices will be in coordination regarding your Fall Study Abroad Plans.
- Pitzer will follow up in Fall regarding a Housing Application for Spring.
- Actions during Fall
  - Group Leaders with suites that are slated to have spring openings will be contacted if they would like to pull in any Fall Abroad students for Spring Semester.
  - If you know a suite that has an opening for Spring and wants you in for Spring, please communicate to Housing@jmswierski.com so we can coordinate that easy placement.
  - If you are not pulled into a suite, complete an updated Housing Application in November
    - Assignment by Rezlife process

Spring 2025 Only Leave/Abroad (Not Graduating)

Fall 2024 – Off Campus Housing
- Current application required – Please complete an Off Campus Application now, indicating on the form you will seeking off campus for Fall only due to a Spring Study Abroad.
  - Must be approved according to the current Off Campus Application process detailed in the Housing Selection timeline.
  - Please note that if you did not participate in the Off-Campus Application process, you are not eligible to apply for Off-Campus housing later.
- Actions during Spring
  - You may continue to move forward with your off-campus housing plans.
Fall 2024 – Campus Housing
- Current application required – Please complete a Housing Selection Application.
  - Move forward with Roommate Matching/Group Explore and Final Selection steps.
- Actions during Spring
  - You will have to submit a housing application for the following year (Fall 2024) since you are returning to Claremont.
  - Be up to date on your Pitzer email for communication regarding the following year’s (Fall 2024) Housing Selection process (typically begins each February)
  - Complete your Housing Application online for the following year (Off Campus, Housing Accommodation, or Housing Selection).
  - You must complete your own Housing Application according to the Housing Selection timeline.
  - Find a roommate group in Residence.
  - Once in a roommate group, your Group Leader will be responsible for your room/bed selection.

Full Year Abroad (Not Graduating)

No current application required – Residence Life and International Programs offices will be in coordination regarding your Fall Study Abroad Plans.
Actions while abroad
- You will have to submit a housing application for the following Fall (2024) since you are returning to Claremont.
- Be up to date on your Pitzer email for communication in spring regarding the following fall’s Housing Selection process (typically begins each February)
- Complete your Housing Application online for the following fall (Off Campus, Housing Accommodation, or Housing Selection).
- You must complete your own Housing Application according to the Housing Selection timeline.
- Find a roommate group in Residence.
- Once in a roommate group, your Group Leader will be responsible for your room/bed selection.

What happens if my Plans change?

If you now need Campus Housing, please notify us by emailing Housing@piter.edu as soon as possible.
Depending on timing in relation to the the Housing Selection process, you may search to see what groups/beds are still available. If no beds are available at that time you will be placed on the Double Deferred Housing List, to be assigned by Residence Life when space becomes available.

Sometimes there is a Housing Waitlist generated prior to each semester. This list is for students who still need housing (or have housing and need a different kind of space) for the coming semester and will be placed by Residence Life once a relevant space becomes available.

Housing Waitlist means that these students will typically get a housing assignment in early August after all the summer movement is complete or, for spring semester, in mid-December. Housing is freed up over the summer due to: study abroad, leave of absences, first-year class enrollment, etc. The Residence Life Office will contact students on the Deferred Housing list to give them their housing placement as soon as something becomes available.